Topband: RX cables in woods

[Tom W8JI]

> But I'm not sure whether that would hold up here. Once in awhile, the 
> power
> company drives their heavy bucket trucks over my land. And people that I
> hire to brush hog my 'pasture' have heavy tractors. That's what breaks my
> PVC conduit lying on the ground, and damages the coax inside it.

I drive over skinnier coaxial cables all the time with my tractors and 4WD 
truck. Maybe the hard larger diameter PVC is making things worse, not 
better?

The main reason I bury cables are animals, catching them with rotary 
cutters, and crushing the large diameter soft cables like Heliax.